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Why Every High School Student Should Take AP Art History
There we stood, my dad and I staring at another naked hunk of Italian marble. Actually, we were looking at Michelangelo’s iconic David in the Galleria dell'Accademia in Florence, Italy. To me, it was no different from the numerous other sculptures we had seen. At least Donatello’s David was wearing boots and a hat. I was mortified that Michelangelo had apparently forgotten to clothe his David. What young girl would want to see stark naked dudes immortalized in stone? Michelangelo once said, “I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free,” but here was a statue already “set free” and I couldn’t see it. His statue might be soaring with the angels, but I was bored and uncomfortable, and I craved lemon gelato.
By Isla Griswald4 years ago in Education
We the Women
“I am so grateful, Pomona, that you allowed me to host this party in your orchard. I would have invited everyone to my sacred garden in the west, but the Hesperides are so finicky about letting others enter the garden, and the dragon Ladon is terrible company.”
By Isla Griswald4 years ago in Fiction
The Scarf
I leaned against a black lamppost next to the busy street and huddled underneath my raincoat. Rain spattered in noisy fat droplets on the sidewalk, on the cars passing by, on my head. I checked my cracked wristwatch and was relieved that I was an hour early for the bus. I was sixteen, and it was high time I left this crooked town, with my crooked family, behind.
By Isla Griswald4 years ago in Horror
